DICKINSON, Daniel Stevens, a Senator from New York; born in Goshen, Conn., September 11, 1800; moved
with his parents to Guilford, Chenango County, N.Y., in 1806; attended the common schools;
apprenticed to a clothier; taught school for several years; subsequently engaged in land surveying;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced practice in Guilford, N.Y.; postmaster of
Guilford 1827-1832; moved to Binghamton, N.Y.; first president of the city of Binghamton in 1834;
member, State senate 1837-1840; lieutenant governor and ex officio president of the senate and
president of the court of errors 1842-1844; appointed and subsequently elected in 1844 as a
Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Nathaniel P.
Tallmadge; reelected in 1845 and served from November 30, 1844, to March 3, 1851; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Finance (1849), Committee on Manufactures
(Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses), Committee on Private Land Claims (Thirty-first Congress);
resumed the practice of law; appointed collector of the port of New York, but declined the position;
elected attorney general of the State in 1861; appointed United States commissioner for the final
settlement of the Hudson Bay and Puget Sound agricultural claims 1864; appointed by President
Abraham Lincoln as United States attorney for the southern district of New York 1865-1866; died in
New York City on April 12, 1866; interment in Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y.